Luis Chaves’s poetry and prose has been published in Costa Rica, Argentina, Mexico, Spain and Germany. This is the first time his work will appear in the United States. In 2012, he was awarded the National Poetry Prize by the Ministry of Culture in San José. He is currently a fellow with the Artists in Berlin program.

While translating Equestrian Monuments, Julia Guez has received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University, a Fulbright Fellowship and the 2013 “Discovery”/ Boston Review Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or will soon be forthcoming in POETRY, The Literary Review, Apogee, No, Dear, DIAGRAM and Washington Square. Guez works at Teach For America-New York and lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Samantha Zighelboim’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Boston Review, Bone Bouquet and Maggy, among others. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Columbia University, where she met Julia Guez, with whom she has been translating the work of Costa Rican poet Luis Chaves. Sam is at work on her first collection of poems, and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University. She lives in New York City.